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Cats Fears & Anxieties Life at Home

Hold Tight? Not When It Comes To Cats. Here’s How To Pick Them Up And Hold Them

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …up and carry her kittens by the scruff of the neck. That’s acceptable between mother and kitten, but it’s not how humans should carry a kitten and certainly not an…

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Cats Life at Home Shelters & Fostering Veterinary Care

Smokey, Cured of FIP and Living to Meow About It!

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Reading Time: 3 minutes Peter Cohen of Santa Barbara, California, has made feline infectious peritonitis his personal cause, having lost two kittens to the dread disease. He now has a…

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Cats Life at Home Training & Grooming

Bathroom Basics: Roll Out These Safety Tips For Cats

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reading Time: 2 minutes Can your kitten or cat get into trouble in the bathroom? You bet! From unrolling the toilet paper (fun!) to licking surfaces that may have been…

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Dressing Up Your Pet May Be Surprisingly Useful

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Reading Time: 5 minutes …so, she was fine with the shirt.” Out of the over 400 kittens Connie has fostered, “I have only had one kitten have a reaction so poor that I decided…

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Cats Fears & Anxieties Life at Home New Pets Shelters & Fostering

Feral to Friendly-ish: Cats Coming in From the Cold

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Reading Time: 4 minutes A major conundrum of the cat world is the profusion of feral cats. Robin Olson, president of Kitten Associates in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, recently trapped the…

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How To Get The Most From Pet Health Insurance

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reading Time: 2 minutes Planning to get a puppy or kitten soon, a young adult pet, or even an adult animal? Pet health insurance can be a good buy. Companies…

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Activities & Enrichment Cats Dogs Life at Home Other Training & Grooming

7 Ways to Create Harmony in a Millennial Pet Household

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …Charlie had been adopted as a kitten and hadn’t lived with any other pets and thus considered the home to be his territory. At the shelter, Ed had fallen in…

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Cats Dogs Life at Home Other Veterinary Care

COVID-19 and Pets: What to Know

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …clue their kitten has it. The normal feline coronavirus, also spread via feces, is ubiquitous among kittens, especially where there are many kittens, such as in shelters or catteries. In…

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Clicker Training Basics

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Reading Time: 5 minutes …something positive (a treat). The ratio should always be 1:1. Every time you click, follow it with a treat. Here’s an example. Let’s say we are teaching a new puppy…

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Real-Life Cats Inspire Fictional Counterparts

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Reading Time: 4 minutes …experience with cats in need of a new home. “Like my character, Lynley Cannon, I’m a 60-something cat shelter volunteer. Unlike Lynley, I don’t run into dead bodies wherever I…